The Tea Party thread!

crows · Jun 13, 2014

Taibhse said:
Ok, you are a mod and you've asked.. so this is my last post.

you promise???

RavenEye · Jun 13, 2014

In before the lock. :yess:

RavenEye · Jun 13, 2014

Crows your avi is missing :s

crows · Jun 13, 2014

Collectorcol · Jun 13, 2014

Wish I could say this thread was fun while it lasted...

devilof76 · Jun 13, 2014

Taibhse said:
I wonder why... nothing to do with all the profits being made, obviously.. I mean who gets greedy in an unregulated market?.. it just doesn't happen.. look at the situation of fisheries in international waters.. they are a model of good business practise.. oh wait...

The people who profit in a free market are the ones who actually offer something of value to those able to afford it. Regulated markets produce the kinds of business practices that occured from Clinton through Bush (I'm sure it's not necessary to point out that the same practices continue to this day; nothing has changed, in theory or practice; it is the same interventionist system).

taibhse said:
The only way to ensure a market is laissez faire is to regulate it, in order to make sure its genuinely laissez faire.. at which point it isn't.. which is why its a mythical beast.. that, and all the cheating...

You're saying that the only way to be free is to be controlled. Still. No kidding that a bold faced contradiction won't work. Your problem is that a real free market won't perform the way your control based perpetually imperfect system wishes it did. The real myth is the sustainability of this global economy, with all of its attendant government interference and manipulation. One has to wonder when someone advocates against the arbitrary distributions of wealth in a system operating on any principle other than voluntary supply and demand.